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*'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_2201_Class GWR 2201 Class]''': Dean's inside-framed 2-4-0s worked many passenger trains on the branch. They were built at Swindon in 1881-2 and were a domeless-boilered development of Joseph Armstrong's 806 class. No 2209 was photographed on a Shrewsbury to Kidderminster service on 11 June 1915.<ref name = Geens>[[Bibliography#Books|Geens (1985)]]</ref> All the class had been withdrawn by the end of 1921.
*'''Barnums''': A number of 'Barnums' were used on the Branch.<ref name=Smith/><ref name=Nabarro/> The true 'Barnums' were the '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_3206_Class GWR 3206 Class]''', built in 1889 and considered William Dean's most successful 2-4-0 design. They were the last GWR locos built with "sandwich" frames. They began life as express mixed traffic locomotives but by the 1920s had been relegated to work on branch lines such as the Severn Valley.<ref>Wikipedia</ref> Nabarro suggests the term was applied to other earlier classes of 2-4-0 including the Joseph Armstrong '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_56_Class GWR 717 class]''' single framed 2-4-0, the 439 class (see above), and the Gooch '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gooch_standard_gauge_locomotives GWR 149 class]'''<ref name=Nabarro/>.
*'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_3252_Class GWR 3252 'Duke' Class]''': 'Dukes' were outside framed 4-4-0 locomotives built under Dean between 1895 and 1899 and originally intended for express passenger train work. However several worked on the Severn Valley Branch as late as World War II, including 3254 Cornubia (shedded at Kidderminster), 3284 Isle of Jersey (shedded at Stourbridge) and 3276 (formerly called 'Dartmoor', shedded at Shrewsbury)<ref name = Nabarro/>.
